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- 5241: Fort Pillow Attack
- ... Jack. Nathan Bedford Forrest-A Biography. New York: Alfred Knoph, 1993. Lee, Guy Carleton. The True History of the Civil War. Philadelphia: I.B. Lippincott, 1903. Long, E. B. and Barbara Long. The Civil War Day by Day-An Almanac. New York: Doubleday, 1971. Sandburg, Carl. Storm over the Land--A Profile of the Civil War. New York: Harcourt Brace: 1939. Wyeth, John Allan. That Devil Forrest -The Life of Gen. Nathan Bedford ...
- 5242: Ancient Greek Beliefs of Religion and Death Differs From Other Cultures
- ... religions have different beliefs of religious ideas from the Ancient Greeks. Afterlife, is a belief where the comparisons among religions become extremely close. The Greek beliefs of gods and death are different from the modern day beliefs of other religions such as Judaism and Ancient Egyptian beliefs. For example, The Odyssey begins with a scene containing a conversation among the gods. The goddess Athena, goddess of war and wisdom, is discussing ... adventure, represents time and fate. Many religions use time and fate as representations of why people die. Ancient Egyptians believed that when a person died, they were hand picked by god and therefore sacrificed. Modern day occurrences make this seem more and more untrue. Time and fate do not demonstrate the reasons of death. For example, the act of random violence is becoming more of a regular practice of unjustified death ...
- 5243: Creative Writing: The Dream
- ... them; they trapped him and kept pulling him further and further out. He was now holding on for dear life as the waves crashed onto him and his boat. The waves were the biggest he'd ever seen. The next set of waves came and picked his boat up, and at the top of the wave the boat flipped and Bobby fell out of the boat. He was in shock and ... beach, which seemed to extend forever, until he got to a point where he saw some strange-looking bushes. The flowers on the bushes were completely different in shape and in color from anything he'd ever seen. It was amazing how beautiful they were. He kept walking past the bushes, and he saw many animals roaming freely. None of the animals bothered each other, some seemed to be helping each ...
- 5244: Abortion - Pro-Choice Views
- ... Sure, lots of people want to adopt children, but with over 1.5 million abortions each year, imagine the over-population of the orphanages! In Silent Scream, the number of abortions in the US per day was quoted at 4,000! The pro-life point about having the baby and putting it up for adoption is very unrealistic. I haven't heard any other pro-life options besides adoption. I guess ... hypothesis is that most of the abortions are performed on lower-class, perhaps poor, women. Without this, just think of the poverty our country would have! At the rate of 4,000 extra people a day, the US would literally run out of room in a short time! My opinion of Silent Scream and pro-lifers I think that Silent Scream was another feeble attempt to scare people out of abortion ...
- 5245: The Vietnam Anti-War Movement
- ... signs and movement salutes. Some units even organized their own demonstrations to link up with the movement at home (Schlight, 45). For example, to join the November 1969 antiwar Mobilization, a unit boycotted its Thanksgiving Day dinner (Schlight, 45). One problem of the antiwar movement was the difficulty of finding ways to move beyond protest and symbolic acts to deeds that would actually impede the war. Unlike college students and other ... demonstrations on hundreds of college campuses paralyzed America's higher-education system. The Kent State tragedy ignited a nationwide campus disaster. Between May 4 and May 8, campuses experienced an average of 100 demonstrations a day, 350 campus strikes, 536 colleges shut down, and 73 colleges reported significant violence in their protests. On that weekend, 100,000 people gathered to protest in Washington. By May 12, over 150 colleges were on ...
- 5246: The Life of Booker T. Washington
- ... began to respect Bookers notions. Not only was he becoming acknowledged by the Blacks but now also by the whites. Booker T. Washington was being secretly funded by great industrialists like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The love approached racism in a nonthreatening way. The only thing that was a problem to him is not all people liked his belief. WEB Du Bois did not like Booker T. Washington's ... began to respect Bookers notions. Not only was he becoming acknowledged by the Blacks but now also by the whites. Booker T. Washington was being secretly funded by great industrialists like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. The love approached racism in a nonthreatening way. The only thing that was a problem to him is not all people liked his belief. WEB Du Bois did not like Booker T. Washington's ...
- 5247: Nevil Shute
- ... times in his novels, such as On The Beach, The Far Country, and Pied Paper. Even though a novel of his was set twenty years in the future, he writes it as just being the day ahead of him. His skies, clouds, and earth's atmosphere are still all natural and the people still use and deprive the lands as they do. In fact, all his writings are really just about his present day experiences and thoughts, that are set in the future with another date in time, and another adventure (Stone and Marowski). In his work, In The Wet, he wrote, No man can see into the future ...
- 5248: Julius Caesar Biography
- Julius Caesar Biography Julius Caesar was born in 100 BC on the 13th day of Quintilis, which we now call July in honor of him. He belonged to a powerful family because Caesar's father's sister married Gaius Marius, the leading man in Rome at the time. Caesar ... now on, his acts were often criminal. However, since he always had an office or army post, he was immune against prosecution. Next, Caesar's Spanish War restored order on the west-coast of present-day Portugal. He looted some silver mines and became rich. Caesar's consulship was rather secure. In December of 60 BC, he was elected to the highest office in the Roman Republic. Caesar and his colleague ...
- 5249: Canada - Of The United States of America
- ... United State of America? In Canada, strong government involvement plays an immense role in determining the destiny of its people for the good of the society. In Canada you are reminded of the government every day. It parades before you. It is not content to be the servant, but will be the master... Henry David Thoreau, 18861 Although slightly outdated, as of 1982 47.3 percent of Canada's GNP was ... a violent crime was committed; a rape every 5 minutes, a murder every 23 minutes, an assault every 51 seconds. Also, because it is a constitutional right for an American to own a gun, every day 15 children aged 19 and under are killed with guns, it is the leading cause of death for people between ages of 15 and 24. Licensed firearm dealers sell an estimated 7.5 million guns ...
- 5250: Against Capital Punishment
- At 8:00 p.m. it was nearing the end of John Evans last day on death row. He had spent most of the day with his minister and family, praying and talking of what was to come. At 8:20 he was walked from his cell down to the long hall to the execution room and strapped in the ...
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